Nationwide, communities are becoming cognizant of the need to plan for the impacts of climate change, but too often, they aren’t sure how to implement climate adaptation plans, particularly in smaller, rural areas with fewer resources, according to officials at a climate leadership conference.
President Donald Trump is facing challenges on Capitol Hill and in the courts over his emergency declaration, which would let him transfer funds from other construction accounts to pay for his long-desired wall along the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
A new National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine report could add momentum to negative emissions technologies, which can remove carbon from the air.
Environmental group slam changes, but construction watchers await new proposal to push more beneficial ash reuse in concrete and other building materials.
Exelon is challenging Maryland water-quality requirements, which are linked to a 50-year federal license renewal to continue Conowingo Dam operations on the Susquehanna River.
